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T-Pain set to rock Myers Field House Friday

MARJAN HUSSEIN Staff Writer The performance by multiplatinum and Grammy Award winner, T-Pain on Friday night will not only be exciting, but will also be a phenomenal addition to the homecoming history books of Minnesota State University, Mankato.

The concert is set to take place 7 p.m. Friday at Myers Field House, with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. The concert will be opened by Minnesota State Mankato’s own, DJ Missy B, a student

who will be playing EDM trap remixes before the main attraction takes center stage.

The concert is set to be a blast, with tickets almost at the edge of being sold out which is anticipated to happen early Friday.

Andrew Stromme, who is in charge of the homecoming events position with the Students Events Team, is thrilled about the T-Pain concert. Stromme is in charge of managing the kickoff bonfire and fireworks, the homecoming concert and the Saturday parade.

Stromme is just one of three homecoming chairs who are tasked with planning out the very lively homecoming week. Stromme says that the University invests a lot in turning ordinary spaces

mnsu.edu into real life stages, making it feel more authentic with the perfect example of Myers Field House being turned into an arena for the T-Pain

concert.

“The concert is a special event as it enables people to gather while listening to good music and celebrate

maverick pride,” Stromme said.

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Feature Photo: Homecoming food-eating contest

Photo by Nicole Schmidt

Students cheer in the Hearth Lounge Wednesday as they watch the food-eating contest.

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Thursday, October 6, 2016

Common Read Program takes on 1,000 Peace Crane Project Various departments work together to create unique installation.

ALISSA THIELGES Staff Writer If you have been around campus recently, you may have noticed some new sculptures hanging around Memorial Library, CSU, and the Earley Center for Performing Arts. These pieces correspond to this year’s Common Read book, When the Empire Was Divine

by Julie Otsuka.

The sculptures are a part of the 1,000 Peace Crane Project, a collective undertaking by several departments at Minnesota State University, Mankato that was inspired by the book.

“Reading is a solitary endeavor,” stated Monika Antonelli, chairwoman of the Common Read planning committee, in a press release on the project. “In the spirit of inclusiveness, the 1,000 Peace Crane Project was created as a visible part of the Common Read Program.”

The Common Read Program is a campus-wide, community-building, publicreading initiative that centers on a book that is chosen for its themes of citizenship, cultural diversity, life transitions, and coming of age.

The original goal of the program was to create a common thread for freshman

(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by caribb students to talk about, but it has become more of a community event since it began seven years ago.

“It’s not something that is only for freshman students anymore, but for everyone,” said Caroline McGowan, Memorial Library’s Outreach Graduate Assistant. “It’s more like a common book club.”

The inception behind the sculptures first came about last May when Liz Miller, an art professor here at MNSU, proposed the notion to tie the book to visual art. The idea quickly caught on.

“The cranes idea just grew organically from meeting with campus partners. One thing lead to another and it became this big project,” Antonelli said.

But, as Antonelli pointed out, this wasn’t a one-woman show.

The key was collaboration from many MNSU

departments. In order to make the sculptures, which are made out of origami paper cranes, word needed to get out about the project, which is where Karen Anderson, Interim Assistant Director of Community Engagement in Student Activities, stepped up. She created posters and coordinated events such as book discussions and origami crane making parties.

Many of these events were led by McGowan. She was in charge of setting up and facilitating many of the events.

Students from Miller’s art installation classes were in charge of producing the sculptures. Both classes had to work together to not only create the designs, but also assemble the pieces.

Chandler Holland, EHS & Risk Management Director from Environmental Health and Safety, was instrumental in coordination and

installation of the art pieces.

“There was a lot of collaboration with everyone,” Miller said. “There were so many people behind the scenes. We just tried to include all offices.”

Offices who didn’t have a direct role to play could show support and add to the cause by making origami paper cranes. Faculty, students and the community members were all encouraged to fold cranes as they read the book.

The idea behind the origami cranes came from a Japanese legend that states a wish will be granted to anyone who folds 1,000 peace cranes. Everyone who folded a crane for the project was encouraged to write their own wish on their crane.

As the project grew, cranes began to come in from all over the place. The wishes on them ranged from heartwarming hopes and dreams, to silly, amusing

wishes.

“We had one that had cheese pizza written on it,” Miller said, laughing.

“Someone was wishing for cheese pizza, I guess.”

The cranes varied in color, texture, size and sometimes even shape, as some were misshapen. The student assemblers were inclined to only use the “good-looking” ones, but Miller encouraged the use of all of them. She said it adds character to the piece and is part of what the sculpture represents.

According to McGowan, the flaws aren’t noticeable when you take in the whole sculpture, which is symbolic of how we are as people.

“It says something about us as humans, that we can all come together and make something beautiful,” McGowan said.

The sculptures were installed last week, just in time for homecoming, but there is still more to come for the Common Read Program.

More book discussions are set to take place Oct. 12 and 19 in the Women’s Center on campus from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

A photo gallery called What Remains: Photos of the Japanese American Concentration Camps is taking place on campus also, in the art gallery in the CSU lower level Oct. 3 to Oct. 28.

Dr. Gina Mumma Wenger, an award winning art professor at MNSU, is displaying thought provoking photos of Japanese American

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Volunteers respond to St. Clair clean-up efforts Over 300 cubic yards of debris from the residents’ homes cleared.

KALEB NORTH Staff Writer “Operation Buckman Grit was a success,” said Curtis Peters, District Coordinator for the Southern Minnesota area, for Team Rubicon.

“The military training that our volunteer members received allowed our organization to work dynamically with our Catholic United Response counterpart, International Orthodox Christian Charities and the Traveling Angels of Minnesota,” said Peters.

According to the Team Rubicon website and their “What It Takes to Deploy Domestically” section, “Team Rubicon operates and deploys at the regional level.

Emergency management is most effectively executed at the local level and we are expanding our capabilities to match this concept. When an operation initiates, the Regional Membership and Field Operations teams lead the personnel mobilization process aided by technology solutions such as Roll Call, Google Apps, and Everbridge. These teams send out the call, vet available personnel, and dispatch members. Selection is based strictly on objective criteria: Proximity, availability, and administrative readiness.”

“We were able to remove

Photo by Kaleb North Two people work to clear a damaged basement in St. Clair. over 300 cubic yards of debris from the residents’ homes and saved the homeowners approximately $18,000 with the services we provided. Our partnership with the Minnesota volunteer organizations, active in disaster response, allowed us to move swiftly and provide assistance to the community,” said Peters.

Team Rubicon had 18 members deployed to St. Clair, which comprised 374 hours of work. The members were gathered from the

Midwest region, including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana.

The team responded to 23 work orders, or homeowner requests for assistance.

Before arriving at St. Clair, the group was stationed in Waseca, aiding in their cleanup efforts.

This is where the name of the operation was established from. “George Buckman was a resident of Waseca, buried there, and one of the first to enlist in the civil war,” said Curtis Peters.

The group tasks ranged from removing appliances from residences, complete demolition of basements, removal of carpet and other personal items. The city provided 12 dumpsters that were frequently being emptied to the landfill and returned for more debris.

While Team Rubicon was aiding homeowners with debris removal and basement demolition, community residents and other volunteers were removing the used and unused

sandbags to be disposed of.

Used sandbags were hauled to the landfill while unused sandbags were taken back to the city highway department, where the sandbags were emptied and set aside for future use.

The community took a break on Sunday.

“Our volunteers are exhausted!” read St. Clair’s Facebook page on Sunday morning.” A big, big thank you to everyone who has helped us through the last 10 days! We’ll post a notice when we tackle the remaining sandbags. Thank you!”

Deborah McCollum, a Public Works employee who was manning the lift station that was lost during the flood last week, mentioned the lift was operable but was facing malfunctions. As a result, some drains were backed up.

On Thursday, Sept. 29, Mayor Marvin More posted a public message on the cities Facebook page. “We are proud to say that the city’s wastewater facility has been returned to operation, and, although ongoing repairs will continue for some time, all residential water/sewer usage restrictions have been lifted. Residents can flush toilets and use drains.”

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Feature Photo: Water main break outside of CSU

Photo by Nicole Schmidt Crews work to repair a watermain pipe that burst Wednesday outside of the CSU. The road was temporarily closed while machinery dug into the road, causing buses to take alternate route.

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CDC’s Mavjobs website: Your place to get hired HEEJAE JUNG Staff Writer It’s that time of the year!

The Career Development Center will hold its annual Career & Internship Expo on Oct. 18 and 19 in the Centennial Student Union Ballroom.

This fair is a fabulous opportunity to get any information about your future career and to meet your future employers.

Mavjobs is also another tool offered on campus that is pivotal to the success of students in finding jobs and internships.

Mavjobs is a great platform to overview and apply for available internships, volunteers, on-campus employment and even fulltime jobs in general. You can search through setting all different kinds of filters such as job types and employment types. On-campus employers highly recommend using Mavjobs for finding jobs on campus.

If you are looking for a job, you don’t have to run around on foot. Just check Mavjobs!

One perk of using Mavjobs is that it is accessible from

Photo Courtesy of The Career Development Center anywhere and easy to use.

All you need to have is the Internet.

Once you login, you can see your profile and your applications on the very top of the right side. Of course, you can edit and update your profile whenever you want along the semester. It is very similar to LinkedIn, which is a well-known, employmentbased social networking service.

Basically, Mavjobs is our own campus version of LinkedIn. However, students

don’t have to search for jobs just in Mankato. It is not a Minnesota-exclusive system.

Therefore, it’s even more useful for those who are not from Minnesota.

Once you go to mnsu. edu and type ‘Mavjobs’ on the search bar of right upper section, you can get the link from the first result. You click it and login with your StarID and password and you will be logged in to your very own account.

To get information of the Career and Internship Expo,

find and click ‘Fairs’ on the left side, then you will see ‘2016 Career and Internship EXPO October 18 & 19’.

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introduction, job types, titles and related majors.

All in all, it is definitely worth checking this part before you actually attend the fair. It is surely a great way to get general backgrounds of your preferable companies and be prepared to impress!

Also, once you click ‘view employers,’ you are able to set the filters dividing into majors, job types, employment types and career fair session. Therefore, you can adjust your preferences first and go to the information that you want right away.

Look for another article in the Reporter for more information about the Expo on Oct. 18. More information will be presented about the actual information of this expo, how to be prepared as a professional and impress your future employment along with little tips and advices from Career Development Center Assistant Director Karina Clennon. So, stay tuned!

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MATTHEW EBERLINE Editor in Chief It’s Homecoming here at MNSU, and with it comes a week full of different festivities celebrating the university and Maverick Pride.

If you plan on going out to celebrate this weekend, here are five tips to ensure that you have a safe and enjoyable time this Homecoming.

Know your limits Because Homecoming is such a fun and festive time, it’s often quite easy to forget your limits and to push yourself too far. This is especially true if you’re over 21 and plan on having a few drinks to celebrate this weekend.

If you do plan on drinking, count your drinks and don’t push yourself to do more than you can handle. Make sure to eat something before you start drinking (and also between drinks), and always bring or prepare your own drinks to ensure your own safety as well as the safety of those around you.

Knowing your limits goes beyond the party scene as well. If you feel as though friends are pressuring you

Reporter Archive to come to a party, don’t hesitate to kindly say no.

Respect yourself and don’t feel bad if you choose to stay home.

Commemorate the event Whether this is your first Homecoming or last, take pictures! In years to come, photos will be a great memory as you look back to the homecoming parade, football game, etc.

However, just because you take the photo doesn’t mean you need to post it.

Be careful of what you post on your social media. Don’t forget that friends, family and possibly future employers could be viewing your pages.

Designate a sober driver This should be common sense to most of us, but it’s worth repeating: don’t drink and drive or attempt to drive home while intoxicated. It’s a

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well-known fact that alcohol impairs your judgment, so be sure to designate a sober driver before you head-out for a night on the town. This was everyone can be safe on the roads this Homecoming.

If you cannot find a sober rise, don’t forget about the cab system. Most cab rides around Mankato range from $8-$15, and with a friend or two, your safe ride becomes very affordable.

Use the buddy system For the most part, Mankato is a pretty safe place to live, but that doesn’t mean you should go out celebrating without some caution.

Every year, Homecoming brings quite a crowd to the downtown scene, so if you go out, be sure to bring a friend you feel comfortable with. At the very least, you’ll be able to ensure your own

safety as well that of those around you.

Remember to respect the community Mankato may be home to many of us college students, we aren’t the only demographic here. While it’s important to have some fun during Homecoming, it’s unacceptable to do so at the expense of the residents and families who also call this city home.

Be considerate of other peoples’ property and respect their privacy; trespassing and vandalism are never okay, no matter what the excuse.

These are just a few of the things you can do to ensure you have a safe and enjoyable celebration this weekend.

Happy Homecoming!

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“No, I do not really care.”

“No, because I’m not going.”

“No, I’m not attending. He’s not my choice of music.”

“Yes, he used to be my favorite artist in middle school.”

“Yes, I listened to him all the time when he was popular.”

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In defense of the millennial generation (that’s us) Lazy jokes aside, millennials are accepting, healthy, and in search of purpose.

Opinion

ELLYN GIBBS Staff Writer This week, my favorite radio station discussed how the type of office snacks a workplace provides directly influences millennials’ satisfaction with their careers. “Type of office snacks? We don’t even have office snacks,” said one of the hosts, laughing.

In another instance, one of my mass media classes watched a video about millennials in the workplace,

(CC BY 2.0) by hnnbz of how common it is for media today to poke fun at the millennial generation.

“Millennial” is an arguable term, as people use it to refer a generation defined

“Millennials are the butt of many societal jokes, as the rest of the world makes fun of our phones, our clothes, our weak characters and our soft lifestyle.” and I laughed aloud more than once. According to the video, millennials expect raises after completing elementary tasks and only speak gibberish before noon.

Those are only two examples

by age or a specific behavior.

People even argue about the exact dates which define the millennial generation, but those born in the 1982-2000 range are most commonly labeled millennials.

Millennials are the butt of

many societal jokes, as the rest of the world makes fun of our phones, our clothes, our weak characters and our soft lifestyle. Although I’m as “millennial” as the rest of my generation, I still often shake my head at our kind, making disparaging comments as if I’m a generation or two removed.

Recently, though, I’ve realized some good things about our generation and have truly grown to appreciate “us” in a deeper way. Of course, I realized that in talking about millennials, I paint with a broad brush.

None of these statements apply to everyone, and there are lots of exceptions out there.

Millennials seem to be searching for a cause,

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Millennials are a generation of acceptance. Although some accuse us of being too easily offended, we also have a deeper understanding that stereotypes and words can injure others. Millennials are eager to respect different backgrounds and cultures, and seem genuinely interested in everyone.

Though we may not initially care enough to make the first move toward friendship,

we’re willing to accept whoever comes our way.

Millennials also seem more health-conscious. Even when living the college lifestyle, we love the results health and fitness bring, and we’re beginning to pay more attention to what we put into our bodies. We’re moving away from harmful chemicals and preservatives in food and pursuing more natural alternatives. We also care more about how our food is made, and animal cruelty that happens in that respect.

All the vegetarians, vegans, and pescatarians I know are millennials. We also make more effort to be active and walk or bike every day.

Every generation has problems, simply because humans are innately flawed.

For instance, we could accuse generations before us for being close minded, wary of people from different backgrounds, and too rooted in immediate family over global issues. However, they were also incredibly hardworking, loyal, and brave people. Likewise, millennials have both good and bad qualities. If we’re going to exercise greatness and explode the standards our forerunners set for us, let’s stop bowing to achieve the minimum of what’s expected of us. And let’s stop disparaging our own generation.

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Feature Photo: Students show appetite for competition at food-eating contest in the Hearth Lounge

Photo by Nicole Schmidt

Students giggle as they try to finish their plate of lasagna in the preliminary round at the food eating contest in the Hearth Lounge Wednesday. Stone Nguenkam was the overall winner in the final round, with curry balls as the food of challenge.

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Clown hoaxes force police to check pranks for real threats STORRS, Conn.

(AP) — Carrying golf clubs, shovels and hockey sticks, several hundred University of Connecticut students gathered just before midnight in a cemetery, ready to do battle with menacing clowns they had heard might be lurking among the headstones.

Police determined that Monday’s clown rumors were a hoax. But dozens of similar reports have surfaced across the country, largely on social media. And authorities are being forced to take them seriously as a potential threat to public safety, particularly at schools, where principals have conducted lockdowns and canceled classes.

“There are many other emergencies and calls for service that troopers and other first responders need to get to without being misdirected to a prank,” Connecticut state troopers said in a statement.

Clown incidents have been reported this week at schools around the U.S., including Penn State University, where police said more than 500 students showed up early Tuesday to hunt for clowns.

Officials at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, ordered students to shelter in place for more than 30 minutes Monday night and evacuated a dorm after social media reports that an armed clown could be on campus.

The clown situations “waste valuable resources and can lead to injuries to both first responders and members of the public,” Connecticut state police

Photo Courtesy of The Associated Press After hearing a report that a clown was sighted at Old Main, students started rushing towards Old Main lawn in search of the clown on Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, in State College, Pa. said. The pranks “can cause major disruptions leading to schools, businesses and neighborhoods being placed into lockdown unnecessarily.”

Sociologists say the panic over clowns, which may seem silly from a distance, is actually a new twist on a phenomenon as old as witch hunts.

“There is a sense that there is some evil force out there that we have to organize together to attack,” said Dustin Kidd, a sociologist and pop culture expert at Temple University. “If anything, it’s just distracting us from the real ordinary threats that we face in our everyday lives.”

Rich Hanley, a journalism professor and social media expert at Quinnipiac University, which also had a clown scare this week, said the fear is easily spread on social media.

Posts on Twitter, Instagram and other sites, he said, often contain videos, images and

statements that lack any context, factual filters or important details that would be in an actual news report.

In a closed social situation, such as a school or university campus, that can easily lead to a less than rational response, he said.

Hanley compared the situation to a “Twilight Zone” episode titled “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” in which “the monsters were all in peoples’ heads,” he said.

“People respond, looking for pitchforks to get the monsters.”

Because of that type of attention from the community, Hanley said, law enforcement must take the issue seriously.

“I don’t think they have a choice,” he said. He

compared it to the practice known as “swatting,” in which someone calls 911 to report that a person is being held hostage at an address. Even though it’s a hoax, police, sometimes including SWAT teams, respond in force.

And it’s not just at colleges.

A false report last month of a clown grabbing a woman by the throat and threatening Reading, Ohio, schools led to classes being canceled for the day.

A 13-year-old student at Utley Middle School in Rockwall, Texas, was charged this week with making a terroristic threat after posting a purported clown’s hit list.

Police told Dallas-Fort Worth television station KDFW that the student put herself on the list and told authorities she

was only trying to stop any “real” clowns from attacking her school.

Several teenagers in Connecticut were arrested Wednesday on charges of making threats, accused of posting clown hoaxes on Instagram that led to extra security at several school districts.

Police also warned that anyone making credible threats could be charged with a more serious felony under a law passed this year in response to the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre. The law calls for up to 10 years in prison for anyone intending to cause the evacuation of a school or school grounds with a threat.

New Haven public schools banned clown costumes this Halloween season after an Instagram account emerged with pictures of menacing clowns and captions telling several area schools to “watch out” and “wait and see” whether the threats are fake.

School Superintendent Garth Harries said Tuesday that the posts have been disruptive to learning and to the school’s sense of security.

“There is no question that whoever is promulgating this is making threats,” Harries said. “We don’t believe there is any credible threat of violence, but they are still making people uncomfortable.”

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At least 500K urged to evacuate as Matthew nears Florida MELBOURNE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Matthew marched toward Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas and at least a half a million people along the coast were urged to evacuate their homes Wednesday, a mass exodus ahead of a major storm packing power the U.S. hasn’t seen in more than a decade.

Matthew was a dangerous and life-threatening Category 3 storm with sustained winds of 120 mph (190 kph) as it passed through the Bahamas, and it was expected to be very near Florida’s Atlantic coast

by Thursday evening. At least 11 deaths in the Caribbean have been blamed on the storm, with heavy damage reported in Haiti.

The storm was forecast to scrape much of the Florida coast and any slight deviation could mean landfall or it heading farther out to see.

Either way, it was going to be close enough to wreak havoc along the lower part of the East Coast, and many people weren’t taking any chances.

In Melbourne Beach, near the Kennedy Space Center, Carlos and April Medina moved their paddle board and kayak inside the garage and took pictures off the walls of their home about 500 feet from the coast. They moved the pool furniture inside, turned off the water, disconnected all electrical appliances and emptied their

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They then hopped in a truck filled with legal documents, jewelry and a decorative carved shell that had once belonged to April Medina’s great-grandfather and headed west to Orlando, where they planned to ride out the storm with their daughter’s family.

“The way we see it, if it maintains its current path, we get tropical storm-strength winds. If it makes a little shift to the left, it could be a Category 2 or 3 and I don’t want to be anywhere near it,” Carlos Medina said. “We are just being a little safe, a little bit more cautious.”

About 20 miles away in the town of Cape Canaveral, John Long said Hurricane Matthew is just hype as his neighbors in his RV park packed up and evacuated inland. Even though his 32-foot RV is just feet from the Banana River and a half mile from the beach, he had no plans to leave.

Long, who owns a bike shop and has lived along the Space Coast for 30 years, said he has a generator and enough food and water for himself and his cats to last a week. “ T h e r e’s a l w ay s tremendous buildup and then it’s no stronger than

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In Fort Lauderdale, about 200 miles south, six employees at a sevenbedroom Mediterraneanstyle mansion packed up for

an evacuation fearing any storm surge could flood the property. The homeowners planned to move to another home they own in Palm Beach that’s further from the water. Two Lamborghinis and a Ferrari had been placed inside the garage, but employee Mae White wasn’t sure what they would do with a Rolls Royce, Mustang and other cars still parked in the driveway.

“This storm surge. It’s scary,” White said. “You’re on the water, you’ve got to go.”

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Continued from page 10 of residents without power for more than a week.

It concluded a two-year span when a record eight hurricanes hit the state.

As of 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Matthew was centered about 300 miles (480 kilometers) southeast of Miami and moving northwest, according to the National Hurricane Center. Hurricaneforce winds extended 45 miles (72 kilometers) from the center.

“When a hurricane is forecast to take a track roughly parallel to a coastline, as Matthew is forecast to do from Florida through South Carolina, it becomes very difficult to specify impacts at any one location,” said National Hurricane Center forecaster Lixion Avila.

Florida can expect as much as 10 inches of rain in some isolated areas.

At Folly Beach, South Carolina, southwest of

Charleston, Gaby Trompeter loaded her car at her beachfront home preparing to evacuate to Augusta, Georgia.

Trompeter, a 50-year-old goldsmith who designs and makes jewelry, remembers Hurricane Hugo when she stayed in Savannah, Georgia, in 1989.

A year ago when what has been described as a 1,000year flood inundated South Carolina there was so much

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Continued from page 1 “The concert is set to take place 7 p.m.

Friday at Myers Field House, with doors opening at 6:30 p.m.”

Stromme also said that, although the football game will be overall the main event of homecoming week, the concert will also have a lot going on from volunteering to ensuring the night runs smoothly.

Stromme said, “The concert will be an awesome way for students to forget about their worries and dance the night away while listening to some T-Pain.”

The T-Pain concert is presented by Hot 96.7 and the Student Events Team, which strives to be a student-led organization that produces fun, interactive and educational

events that make life long memories while celebrating maverick pride.

Stromme said that the main challenge with planning a concert is closing a deal with an artist, but the university is beyond pleased to have a prosperous artist performing at the concert this year.

Talk to get T-Pain to perform at Minnesota State Mankato began early in the summer and finally students will get to see a legend in the music industry perform on their campus.

“The concert has also

been well received by students as all the free tickets were gone in under 24 hours after the concert had been announced,” Stromme said.

The T-Pain concert is set to be the biggest concert on campus grounds.

T-Pain is globally known for hit songs such as; Buy U A Drank, Up Down and Bartender. He has also done some performances in various universities surrounding Minnesota State University, Mankato.

This concert will indeed be spectacular and remain in the hearts of many for years to come.

water on the road near her house she couldn’t get out for three days.

“If it brings a lot of rain, more than the storm last year, why would I want to stay?” she said.

President Bar ac k Obama visited the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s headquar ters Wednesday to be briefed on preparations. FEMA has deployed personnel to emergency operation centers in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. It’s also positioning commodities and other supplies at Fort Bragg in North Carolina and in Albany, Georgia.

On the Georgia coast, 92-year-old Lou Arcangeli saw two of his adult children come to his home on Tybee Island to help prepare and evacuate if necessary.

“It’s serious,” said Arcangeli, who has lived in the Savannah area since 1979, when Hurricane David became the last hurricane to

make landfall on Georgia’s 100-mile coast. “I’m going to keep an eye on it and not wait until the last minute. As far as I’m concerned, what’s going to happen is going to happen.”

Farmers in Matthew’s path scrambled to protect their crops. In South Carolina, Jeremy Cannon was harvesting his soybeans a week early after waiting too long before last year’s record rainstorm. He watched his soybeans and cotton crops slowly drown as 20 inches of rain fell, costing him $800,000.

“I don’t want to lose a single soybean this year if I don’t have to,” Cannon said.

“The Lord says pray without ceasing. And that’s what I’ve been doing — in the fields, near the barn — just praying all the time. I don’t want to find out what I’ll have to do if I get wiped out for another year.”

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Tagging point of infection that contributed to orca’s death biologist who heads the orca tagging program. He said he was in charge and “completely responsible” for failing to ensure that the tag was properly sterilized.

“We’re trying to take stock of the report and comments and figure how best to move forward,” he said. Hanson noted the program has produced a tremendous

amount of data about the whales in a relatively short amount of time.

But the satellite tagging program will remain suspended until the agency has completed its own

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CRANE (CC BY-NC 2.0) by Thomas Hawk SEATTLE (AP) — A satellite-linked tag fired into an endangered Puget Sound orca by federal biologists led to a fungal infection that contributed to the whale’s death, scientists said Wednesday.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries said a 20-yearold whale found dead off Vancouver Island in March was found to have fragments of a dart tag in its dorsal fin. The death prompted the agency in April to temporarily halt its tagging program.

Five weeks before it was found dead, researchers fired a small satellite-linked transmitter into the orca to track where the animals go in the winter and how they find food. The transmitter is the size of a 9-volt battery and attaches with two titanium darts just over 2 inches long. It’s designed to detach over time and leave nothing behind in the whale.

A fungal infection entered

the orca’s bloodstream at the spot where it was shot, causing the animal’s death, the necropsy found.

The fungus may have been introduced by a contaminated tag, or was already on whale’s skin and brought deeper by fragments left behind in the animal’s body, the examination found.

The tag may have been contaminated when it fell into the sea and wasn’t properly sterilized before it was used, possibly contributing to introducing the fungi into the wound, the report by a panel of scientists said.

The agency and its scientists “are deeply dismayed that one of their tags may have had something to do with the death of this whale,” NOAA Fisheries’ chief scientist Richard Merrick told reporters in a telephone call.

“There’s always a risk involved when you’re conducting research on wild animals. But it’s our job and

our obligation to reduce that risks and that’s what we’ll continue to do,” Merrick said.

Some advocates have criticized the tagging, saying it injures the orcas and there are less invasive ways to monitor the small population of whales. There are currently 82 animals.

Ken Balcomb, a senior scientist with the Center for Whale Research in Friday Harbor, said he has been raising concerns for years about the use of the tags, which he called “barbaric and risky.”

Several factors may have predisposed the whale to a severe fungal infection, including not completely sterilizing the device, Merrick said. The tag also hit the whale near significant blood vessels, and the whale’s health may have been compromised at the time it was tagged in February.

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Finally, in culmination of the Common Read Program, MNSU is welcoming Julie Otsuka, author of the Common Read book, When the Empire Was Divine, to campus to discuss her award-winning novel. This keynote event will take

place Wednesday, Oct. 19, at 7 p.m. in the CSU Ballroom.

Otsuka will also be at the Emy Frentz Gallery in Mankato Thursday, Oct. 20 at 10 a.m. to answer questions, and then will be back on campus later that day for a craft talk at 3 p.m. and a book signing at 7:30 p.m. in the CSU. All Common Read events are free and open to the public.

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New Ulm channels inner German at annual Oktoberfest Best of Minnesota program, and has been ranked among the best Oktoberfest celebrations in the nation by Fodor’s Travel (2014), USA TODAY (2015), and Tripping. com (2015). Come see what all the fuss is about!

Besides the specific Oktoberfest festivities, many of the tourist attractions,

restaurants, and retail shops look forward to welcoming festers to the community.

Further information and details on the variety of Oktoberfest events and other New Ulm activities can be found on www.newulm.com.

Contact chamber@newulm. com, 507-233-4300 with any questions.

Student endorsements (CC BY-SA 2.0) by distillated NEW ULM, MINN. – Come join the “most German city in America” as they celebrate Oktoberfest on Oct 7-8 and Oct 14-15. Now in its 35th year, New Ulm’s Oktoberfest is modeled after one of the world’s largest celebrations held for several centuries in Munich, Germany, and features music, beer, and German heritage. New Ulm’s version takes place during the first two full weekends in October with festivities happening at various locations throughout town.

The main events are held in the historic downtown, Schell’s Brewery, and the

Best Western Plus.

The downtown events on Saturday, Oct 8, include the Germanic-American Day Parade at 11am and then music and food at the corner of Center and Minnesota Streets.

Local favorites Schell’s Hobo Band will play from 11am-2pm and a Johnny Cash tribute band, The Church of Cash, will play from 2-5pm. The following Saturday, Oct 15, will feature the local Wendinger Band from 11am-2pm followed

by Switch Road Band from 2pm-5pm.

German and American food provided by Turner Hall will be available

for purchase both weekends.

There will be German craft beer from Schell’s Brewery and local wine from Morgan Creek Vineyards available, as well as Angry Orchard Hard Cider and locally brewed 1919 Root Beer. The Optimist Club will again be serving their famous cheese curds, and locally grown produce will be for sale. George Wendt, aka: Norm from the TV show Cheers, will be making appearances and signing books on Saturday, Oct 15.

In 2014, New Ulm’s Oktoberfest was voted Best Oktoberfest by WCCO’s

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He is energetic, feisty, competent and wholly representative of the people in this region. If we elect him on November 8th, we will be sending a message to St. Paul that Mankato will not settle for anything less than utter perfection. Nick Frentz is the embodiment of District 19. He is successful, kind, extremely hard-working and not the type ever to let obstacles get in is way. Without a doubt Nick Frentz will be a force for good once in office. He will

challenge the extremism of the Republican Party and ensure that Minnesota is governed not by politicians but by common-sense. As a college student who has gotten to know Nick I can testify that he speaks for me. The policies for which he will advocate in office will be in my interest, and the interests of college students everywhere.

More than this, people of every demographic, background, and salient identity will be able to say the same. He will be the representative of all the people in this district, not just a select few.

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NOA A’s Nor thwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle will also set up an independent panel to review whether satellite tagging of Puget Sound resident orcas should continue.

And NOAA’s Office of Protected Resources will consider additional conditions to reduce injury or infection for all

future tagging efforts on whales, dolphins and other cetaceans.

The number of southern resident killer whales has fluctuated in recent decades as they have faced threats from pollution, lack of prey and disturbance from boats.

NOAA is considering whether to expand habitat protections for the orcas

to include offshore areas from Washington to Northern California, and Merrick said the tagging program has been crucial to understanding the animal’s habitat.

The tag has been used numerous times on whales and other marine mammals, as well as eight Puget Sound orcas.

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Six shows that need to be brought back More often than not, TV shows are cancelled because of the Friday ‘death slot.’

JOHANN HOLLAR Staff Writer I know there are a lot of you Firefly fans out there who were angry at the cancellation of the series and probably the Adam West Batman series, but there a lot of other shows out there you probably did not know about that deserve a second chance or should have never been cancelled, yet were, due to the infamous Friday death slot.

I will let you decide what to think while I state the various shows that need to be reconsidered.

Planet of the Apes Didn’t know they had a series, did you? They did have one that ran for 14 episodes

(CC BY 2.0) by ABC Studios/Marvel on CBS in 1974, but it was cancelled due to repetitive story lines, a lack of appearances of the apes and the Friday night death slot time of 8-9 p.m. In 1981, Fox had redone ten episodes of the

series into five TV movies.

Constantine You think I would leave that one out? I, myself ,enjoyed the series too. Inspired by the Vertigo comic and now part of the DC Universe,

Matt Ryan starred as the paranormal investigator himself on NBC. The series was cancelled due to low ratings and because it was shown during the infamous death slot. Matt Ryan, however, did

reprise his role in the fourth season of Arrow and petitions were launched to bring back the series.

Dracula The most famous vampire in fiction had his own TV show with Johnathan Reyes Meyers as the Count himself.

The show was about the vampire posing as an American businessmen in London who wanted to help modernize the country, but in truth he was seeking revenge on a secret society that killed his wife centuries earlier. The series was on NBC and was cancelled after one season due to poor ratings, lack of advertisement and of course, the infamous Friday death slot.

Fans of the series were outraged after hearing this, but according to empirenews.

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Movie review: The Magnificent Seven Remake of Western classic is entertaining, but fails to flesh out characters.

GABE HEWITT A&E Editor The Magnificent Seven is the ultimate tale of good vs. evil. It takes the viewer on a journey with a band of seven outlaws in the West as they attempt to save a town from a greedy bandit.

From the get-go, The Magnificent Seven brings the audience into its conflict. Townspeople are having a town hall type meeting in a church to discuss Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), a bandit who’s using nearby gold mines to take over the town. Things escalate quickly when Bogue crashes the meeting and lets the townspeople know of his crooked agenda. This opening scene ends with the

Photo Courtesy of The Associated Press church burning and thus, creating a need for Bogue to be stopped.

From there, we meet the members of the “The Magnificent Seven.” The leader is Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington), a bounty hunter who

is approached by two people of the town Bogue has taken over. He acts as a “Nick Fury” and recruits the other members of the group. I was really impressed by Washington’s performance. He had a certain stature about him

that made me believe in everything his character said or did. He also has a mysterious background that’s hinted at throughout the film.

At the heart of it all, The Magnificent Seven is a true western film. It’s a remake

of the classic 1960 Western film. I haven’t seen the original, so I won’t be able to do any comparisons, but there were definitely callbacks to the the classic Western film style. This included the music, sound effects and closeup shots of actors that almost seemed grainy. Don’t forget the horses, guns and those Western-style buildings. The movie does a great job at creating the setting and building this world.

As it builds the world, it attempts to build the characters in the actual Magnificent Seven. This includes characters played by Ethan Hawke, Chris Pratt and Vincent D’Onofrio. Because of the nature of movie run times and the number of characters, The Magnificent Seven struggles to develop its main charac-

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Movie review: Don’t Breathe is a thrilling horror flick Sam Raimi produces film about thieves who rob killer blind man.

Don’t Breathe plays on the concept of life’s question in regards to fairness as to why situations end how they do.

As an audience, we take a wild jolt through seemingly mazes and complicated characters, and we lose sight of our own breathing as each action scene attacks us with one surprise after another.

The movie opens up in the first scene with an older man dragging a younger woman by her blonde hair. As the beginning unravels, we discover it is a blind man who was once a soldier and now lives alone in a comfortable home, while Rocky, the younger woman, lives with an alcoholic mother who is dating a drug addict.

In contrast, Rocky also has a younger sister who dreams of surfing in California and who Rocky feels responsible for.

Rocky is also part of the team with Money and Alex who rob rich houses in order to make better lives for themselves.

To penetrate farther into the theme, for a while we may believe the blind man is vulnerable and should be pitied and his own dark secret stowed away in his basement.

But it isn’t until after he is robbed and he catches the kids that we understand who he really is. He isn’t just a soldier who endured his own traumas in the war he fought or a sweet old man who plays family videos to help him sleep at night, but he believes that any wrongdoers deserve what they get and he is more than happy to make their last moments as miserable as he can.

As for the other characters, the audience only understands that Alex’s dad is

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in some sort trouble through a text to Alex that asks for money. There is much more to Rocky’s story. When she is together with the two guys for the first time and they are scouting the blind man’s home, the camera crosscuts between headshots of her and Alex, indicating some kind of connection.

In the same scene, the camera zooms in on a ladybug running up Rocky’s hand. Alex asks about her tattoo. Rocky responds that the ladybug meant a lot to her because after her parents’ divorce, her mom blamed her for it. Her mom would lock Rocky in the car trunk for hours and once a ladybug visited her and she had felt comforted. Rocky further said that once she arrived in California, she planned to color her tattoo, but that was the last time she would mark her body. While it is not said outright, the audience gets a feeling that the ladybug is a symbol of happiness and freedom for Rocky. Money,

of whom we never get any idea of his background, returns from scouting the area and suggests that they all return later on. But, just before he pulls away, a black-andbrown huge dog leaps on the window at them, a foreshadowing not to return or they will pay.

But they do anyway. At 2 a.m. Rocky, thinking of her sister, is the one who offers to break in. The camera pans around from behind her and we get the impression that she is being watched.

As soon as they get into the house, they take their shoes off and leave them under the table. The camera lingers on the shot of all three pairs, hinting at the poor decision made.

Even though Money shortly after releases sleeping gas, things do not go according to their plan, thus the reason I believe this movie focuses on coincidence and how things can go wrong despite plans.

The blind man awakens and the “fun” begins. In irony to

his first name, Money is the one who pays first. Meanwhile Alex’s gut lacks any good feeling. Despite that Rocky’s expression shows apprehension, she hesitates since she is thinking of how they money will get her sister out of the home situation.

The camera again cuts to the image of the shoes under the table. Noises are made and then, suddenly, the blind man is standing in the room with them, his gun drawn. He and Money get into a physical battle and Money loses.

From there, the movie goes on with a repeat of the same images: alarms, locks, ladybug, keys, and windows. In the end, Rocky and Alex make several escape attempts but, only by pure luck or the tools they happen upon. While they are separated for a time, and she discovers light from the tunnel she has gone through, Rocky kicks at the window until it breaks. She is about to jump out when the blind man drags her back and punches

her until she is knocked out.

The camera focuses on her eye, and as she awakes, she is on a bed with a wall of couch pads behind her. Instead of being locked in a trunk, she is in the room that the blind man imprisoned his daughter’s killer. His plan? Since Rocky broke into his house and the woman who was going to have his replacement daughter got killed in the madness, so Rocky must pay. The blind man plans to impregnate her through a syringe of his sperm.

It’s then Rocky cries out for God but the blind man tells her there is no God. Just as the blind man is about to inject his sperm into her, bloody and bruised Alex breaks in and throws a dagger at the blind man’s heart.

It’s looks like justice may finally be served. To be on the safe side, Alex also handcuffs the blind man.

Somehow the blind man escapes and the cat-andmouse chase messes with your head. But that’s all I’ll say about that or I might give too much away. Towards the end, Rocky must also overcome her idea of a car trunk as a prison while she faces the dog alone and is nearly ripped apart. She crawls into the tight space herself and the image of a ladybug also reappears and lands on her hand before it flies away. It is as though Rocky has given up and has left herself in fate’s hands.

But does she? You might want to go see the movie if you haven’t already and find out!

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Activists blast ‘O’Reilly Factor’ Chinatown piece as racist LOS ANGELES (AP) — Watchdog and activist groups are outraged by a Fox News Channel segment in which an interviewer asked people in New York’s Chinatown if he was supposed to bow to greet them, if they were selling stolen goods and if they could “take care of North Korea for us.”

Several organizations condemned humorist Jesse Watters’ piece on “The O’Reilly Factor,” calling it racist and demeaning to Asian-Americans.

“It’s 2016. We should be far beyond tired, racist stereotypes and targeting an ethnic group for humiliation and objectification on the basis of their race,” Asian American Journalists Association President Paul Cheung said in a letter to Fox and posted online. He is director of interactive and digital news production for The Associated Press.

Cheung called on Fox to apologize to the Asian-American community and asked for “an explanation for how this type of

coverage will be prevented in the future.”

Watters asked people on the street about the presidential race, sought a demonstration of karate and showed footage of him getting a pedicure.

At one point in Monday’s nearly five-minute segment, an elderly woman’s silence in response to a query was paired with a clip from Mel Brooks’ “Young Frankenstein” in which Madeline Kahn shouts, “Speak, speak, why don’t you speak?!”

Gregory A. Cendana,

executive director of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, criticized the report.

The coverage, including making “fun” of the Chinese elder, “played into the exoticization and status of perpetual foreigner” of the Asian-American community, Cendana said in a statement.

After the “Watters World” report concluded, Bill O’Reilly called it “gentle fun,” adding, “we’re gonna get letters, inevitably.”

On Wednesday, the

Asian Americans Advancing Justice affiliation said it was outraged by the “blatant, racist and offensive stereotypes of Chinese Americans.”

“It is unconscionable that a news organization would sanction a segment that laughs at a community of people, including Watters ridiculing elderly Chinese Americans who were limited English-proficient,” the group said.

U.S. Rep. Ted W. Lieu, D-California, weighed in as well.

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‘Thriller’ songwriter Rod Temperton dies in London at 66 British-born musician also wrote ‘Rock With You’ and other hits.

LONDON (AP) — Rod Temperton, a British-born musician and songwriter with a singular knack for pop-funk who wrote the Michael Jackson classics “Thriller,” ‘’Rock With You” and many other hits, has died of cancer in London at 66.

His music publisher said in a statement Wednesday that Temperton had died last week of an “aggressive” cancer. No other details were provided.

Jon Platt of Warner/Chappell said Temperton was the sole writer of “Thriller,” ‘’Off the Wall,” ‘’Rock with You” and other major songs.

Temperton started his career in the disco band Heatwave and collaborated with Aretha Franklin, Herbie Hancock, Anita Baker and many others.

He was best known as a songwriter and worked closely with producer Quincy Jones on groundbreak-

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Platt said Temperton was sometimes known as “the invisible man” for his behind-

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net, can breathe a sigh of relief for Netflix picked it up and will continue with another season.

Star Trek: Enterprise For those of you Trekkies reading about this and fuming, you are not alone. The UPN series which ran for four seasons was moved to the infamous Friday death slot due to repeats being shown on the weekend, which is still hardly an excuse to cancel the series where the events within the galaxy predate the original Star Trek series.

Legend of The Seeker Inspired by the Sword of Truth book series, the

TV show went a different angle than the book series. It nevertheless had the hero Richard Cypher (Craig Horner), the Confessor Khalan (Bridget Regan), the Wizard Zeddicus (Bruce Spence) and the MordSith Cara (Tabrett Bethell) defending the helpless against the evils that besiege the realm. When the series was cancelled due to a falling out between ABC and SyFy, fans were outraged and Terry Goodkind, the author of the Sword of Truth series, was disappointed.

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the-scenes role.

Temperton was a native of the seaside town of Cleethorpes, 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of London. He had been working in a frozen fish factory in the mid-1970s when he responded to an ad and joined Heatwave, an international group for whom he played keyboards and wrote two major hits, the disco favorite “Boogie Nights” and the ballad “Always and Forever.”

“Always and Forever” attracted wide attention and was later covered by Luther Vandross, among others.

His work with Heatwave attracted the attention of Jones, who was then working with Jackson.

Temperton revealed a gift for both fast and slow numbers, whether the easygoing “Rock with You” or the sci-fi funk of the title track from “Thriller.”

In a 2009 interview with

The Telegraph, Temperton said “Thriller” was originally called “Starlight” until Jones asked him to find a new title.

“I went back to the hotel, wrote two or three hundred titles and came up with ‘Midnight Man,’” he recalled.

“The next morning I woke up and I just said this word (thriller). Something in my head just said, ‘This is the title’.

“You could visualize it at the top of the Billboard charts.

You could see the merchandising for this one word, how it jumped off the page as ‘Thriller’’’.

His success went beyond the worldwide smash that “Thriller” became. Numerous other artists would have hits with his work, including George Benson with “Give Me the Night” and Donna Summer with “Love Is in Control (finger on the Trigger).”

Temperton also received an Oscar nomination as a co-writer of “Miss Celie’s Blues (Sister),” from the soundtrack of “The Color Purple,” and contributed several songs to the Billy Crystal-Gregory Hines comedy “Running Scared.”

In 2009, The Guardian newspaper described Temperton as a “reclusive, Grammy-winning genius who has always shunned the spotlight.” The newspaper said he was rarely seen in public and rarely photographed.

Templeton once told BBC radio he had been lulled to sleep as a baby by the sound of music on a transistor radio placed in his crib.

Platt said Temperton’s family is “devastated” and has held a private funeral. He said they are requesting privacy at “the saddest of sad times.”

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FX’s Atlanta isn’t afraid to break the rules Donald Glover’s new existential comedy should be on everyone’s watchlist.

GABE HEWITT A&E Editor The opening scene of episode one of Atlanta immediately brings the viewer into a scene that sets the tone for the entire series. The tone is very much a poor neighborhood with the show’s main characters trying to make it out of this poverty. It’s the way these circumstances are told and played out that make FX’s Atlanta a must-watch.

Meet Earn (Donald Glover). As the main protagonist, Earn is on a path of self-discovery. He’s a lethargic, witty and curious millennial looking to get into “the business” in any way he can. His cousin,

Photo Courtesy of The Associated Press Al (Brian Tyree Henry), is an up and coming rapper in the Atlanta area known as Paper

Boi. In the early episodes, we see him struggle with the repercussions that come

from the events of the first episode and his rising fame.

Darius (Keith Stanfield) is Al’s

righthand man who isn’t always there mentally. Vanessa (Zazie Beetz) is Earn’s former lover and the the two have a daughter.

Atlanta isn’t afraid to break the rules of traditional comedies. There’s often long droughts without dialogue and the characters just being there or moving around.

There’s a real natural feeling that goes with this. A show that does this similarly is Louie, also on FX, where the camera often just pans an area to capture emotion. To add to this real world feeling, the show incorporates contemporary cultural aspects like social media into the plot and character dialogue. One early episode involves a YouTube personality harassing

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MAGNIFICENT Continued from page 18 ters. We get a brief taste of who these outlaws are when we initially meet them, but that’s about it. Washington’s character is the only character who’s really fleshed out and that doesn’t happen until the final minutes.

On top of individual character development, I would

have liked to see better interactions between the members of the Magnificent Seven. Much of the interaction between them is quipping or sassy remarks towards one another. That’s fun and all, but let’s see some bonding over their past murders or bloody histories.

The characters themselves are still entertaining and fun to watch. D’Onofrio’s performance surprised me, especially after watching him in Netflix’s Daredevil. He plays the squeaky loose-cannon Jack Horne and everything he says is gold. These entertaining characters add to the

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The Magnificent Seven is certainly entertaining, but

don’t go in expecting to feel for the characters if something harmful happens to them in the end. It knows it’s a Western film and its final moments will keep the audience guessing how it all ends.

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HBO’s Westworld could be new masterpiece Western sci-fi drama stars Ed Harris, James Marsden, and Evan Rachel Wood.

MATTHEW EBERLINE Editor in Chief This review contains spoilers for the pilot episode of HBO’s Westworld.

I’ll admit it. When HBO first announced their newest drama series, Westworld, I was skeptical. A Western drama with a sci-fi twist? Meh. Not really my cup o’ tea. So when the popular cable network released the series’ pilot episode last Sunday, I went in with limited expectations. There’s no way this show could be even remotely as good as Game of Thrones, right? Well, if the pilot episode is any indication, I was dead-wrong and HBO may just have another masterpiece on their hands.

Created by Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan (the younger brother of film director Christopher Nolan, the famed creator of Interstellar and The Dark Knight trilogy), Westworld is a re-imagining of a Michael Crichton film by the same name from the early 1970s. The show begins by introducing us to Dolores Abernathy, a young woman living with her father and moth-

“Stanotte debutta Westworld, la nuova ser” (CC BY 2.0) by televisione er on their cattle ranch, and Teddy, a man who serves as a sort of guide for visitors new to the area (called “newcomers”) and as a potential love interest for Dolores. Teddy and Dolores spend their days in the community, helping and interacting with the various newcomers who come to visit. Little do they know, their world holds a dark and terrible secret and nothing is what it seems.

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by Ed Harris. While the man in black appears at first to be the archetypical Western villain with a penchant for cruel-

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While it may not seem like it at first glance, Westworld is actually a surprisingly deep

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Speaking of shots, Westworld is visually one of the most beautiful shows I’ve ever seen. The desert landscape shots really help to build up the world these characters inhabit (real or not) and create some incredibly striking vistas. In the park’s headquarters (where its creators constantly manage and repair the inhabitants), we get a glimpse as to how Westworld’s hosts are made. I won’t spoil how it all works, but there are some eerily beautiful visuals here that really help to convey that ominous feeling that undertones the whole episode.

The cast of characters in

this show (at least the ones we’ve seen so far) are superb, as well. Evan Rachel Wood (American Gothic, True Blood) stars as Dolores with James Marsden (the X-Men franchise), Ed Harris (A Beautiful Mind, Gravity) and Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs) as Teddy Flood, the Man in Black, and Dr. Robert Ford, respectively. Sometimes a TV show will cast a well-known actor as a character that just doesn’t feel quite right, but not so with Westworld. Each member of this ensemble cast perfectly captures the personality and complexities of their character, and not once did any of their perfor-

mances feel out of place.

All in all, the pilot episode of Westworld (titled “The Original”) does a spectacular job setting up the series and the philosophical themes behind it. The combination of great writing, acting, and cinematography work to create an enrapturing experience rivaled by very few other television shows out there. It’s a hell of a great way to start a series and I, for one, am extremely excited to see what Westworld has to offer next.

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Al as one of his songs becomes popular.

The dialogue itself is really well-written. It’s fluid and something small it does is add pauses between word exchanges.

Glover writes characters well and you become vested in them and their goals.

The situations they get themselves into are often very relatable. In one episode, Earn takes Vanessa out for a date to an expensive restaurant and is stressing about affording it the entire time.

The show also blends elements of a drama into it. We see episodes that incorporate the main core of characters throughout the episode and then we see others that focus on just one character, like Al or Vanessa. This dramatic element adds to it tense and very dire circumstanc-

es where you feel yourself feeling for the characters.

You’re let down when the characters are let down, you feel their happiness, you feel their anguish.

Atlanta’s cinematography is absolutely stunning.

Each episode incorporates the title card into a shot and it’s always so satisfying. Overall, the wide shots and panning shots really bring you into the world and make Atlanta look really beautiful.

The only downside to Atlanta is that it’s currently only slated to air ten episodes. I’m sure its success will bring a second season, but this first season will still end sooner than it has to.

The only legal way to catch up on Atlanta is by using FX’s streaming service FX NOW. If you are able to watch it, don’t waste any time and do it now.

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Vuitton gives star-filled happy ending to dark Paris season Paris Fashion Week ends peacefully after Kardashian West robbery.

PARIS (AP) — The Louis Vuitton red carpet was rolled out at the historic Place Vendome on Wednesday for a much-needed happy ending to a Paris Fashion Week marred by the multimillion-dollar heist of Kim Kardashian West’s jewelry.

A roll call of actresses that included Alicia Vikander, Jennifer Connelly, Michelle Williams, Sophie Turner and a heavily pregnant Lea Seydoux joined tennis star Roger Federer in the front row.

And what a show it was.

Here are the highlights of Wednesday’s ready-towear collections, capping the Spring-Summer 2017 season.

LOUIS VUITTON: THE CLOTHES In lauded designer Nicolas Ghesquiere’s finest collection since restyling the house in 2013, the French designer exposed his passion for the 1980s and riffed on science fiction.

Big hair, big shoulders, big sparkle, big prints, big eyes: that was the mantra for Spring-Summer.

Bold, sunset-shaped eye makeup that stretched from ear-to-ear set the fashion dial firmly to the age of Glam Rock.

That era also was known for its obsession with sci-fi films, a reference Ghesquiere picked up on in his 45-piece show.

Styles that evoked “Star Wars” were seen in lozenge patches over the bust, curved asymmetrical forms on shirts with metallic sheer overlays, tunic-like gowns with boots,

Photo Courtesy of The Associated Press and armor-like white shoulder pads that looked like they might have been snipped from a Stormtrooper’s back.

But the beauty of the collection was in its remarkable silhouettes and the deftness of the cuts that made it a more grown-up display than those to which we’ve become accustomed.

A loose gray jacket with structured, mushroom-shaped oversize sleeves produced a stylish silhouette as it gently curved out at the bottom.

The designer, who revitalized Balenciaga during his tenure there from 1997 to 2012, seems to be doing the same at Louis Vuitton.

ALICIA VIKANDER SURPRISED Oscar-winning actress

Vikander landed in Paris on Tuesday and was surprised to discover her face plastering billboards all around town.

“Well, I didn’t actually know, but I arrived yesterday and I see that my film (“The Light Between Oceans”) is coming out today in France, so I’ve seen the posters up,” she told The Associated Press from the Louis Vuitton front row.

The “Danish Girl” star may well not have enough time to talk to her PR team on her movie release dates as she’s simply too busy jet-setting around the world.

“I live on an airplane. I’m kind of a nomad living out of my suitcases,” said Vikander, wearing a white blouse and cleanly cut Louis Vuitton na-

val jacket.

And when she’s not in the sky, she’s busy with her new role as film producer.

“I just produced my own film after starting my own company last year. I wrapped

my first production a week ago, ‘Euphoria,’ with Eva Green and Charlotte Rampling,” she added.

US AMBASSADOR BIDS FAREWELL Ever since Jane D. Hartley became U.S. ambassador to France in October 2014, the well-groomed diplomat has been a regular face on the front rows of major shows such as Christian Dior and Louis Vuitton.

But Hartley’s appearance at Louis Vuitton’s Spring-Summer show, where she wore a black Vuitton T-shirt with silver zigzags, may be her last.

The ambassador, who sat in the front row next to LVMH’s Bernard and Delphine Arnault, spoke to The AP about her passion for fashion and her sadness at bidding farewell to the spectacular Paris shows.

“It’s wonderful being in Paris and being at these shows and the beauty and the style. I’m lucky,” Hartley, 66, said.

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Mavericks ready to hit the ice No. 17 Minnesota State will face No. 19 Michigan Tech.

TOMMY WIITA Sports Editor Minnesota State’s men’s hockey team will look to bounce back from a season that may have been a letdown from the year before.

After earning a victory in exhibition play, they are ready for the regular season.

The 17th ranked Mavericks will face off against the 19th ranked Michigan Tech Huskies this weekend at the Verizon Center. The Mavericks currently hold the all-time series record against the Huskies, standing at 32-17-7. The Huskies have not fared well in playing the Mavericks at the Verizon Center, as MSU holds the advantage with a 19-4-

Reporter Archives Senior goaltender Cole Huggins will be a vital key for the Mavericks to be successful for the 2016-2017 season.

3 record. Minnesota State is

hoping a team consisting of

mostly underclassmen (11 up-

perclassmen) will be able to learn the ropes under Head Coach Mike Hastings.

The Mavericks will be leaning on captains Carter Foguth and C.J. Franklin for leadership this season. The Senior defenseman Foguth is entering his second-consecutive season as a captain for Minnesota State, and led the team in the 2015-2016 season with 79 blocks. The junior forward in Franklin scored 14 goals with 11 assists, adding up to 25 points last season.

In last season’s contests, the Huskies and Mavericks tied in one game and the Huskies were triumphant in the other. Both games were close, ending in scores 2-2 and 3-1. The games were both played in Houghton, Michigan. Before losing to them last season, the Mavericks had not lost to Michigan Tech since the 2011-2012 sea-

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Minnesota State to host Concordia-St. Paul Saturday Mavericks will aim for their sixth-consecutive homecoming victory.

COLT JOHNSON Staff Writer It’s homecoming week and the Minnesota State Mavericks are hosting the Concordia-St. Paul Golden Bears with hopes to win their 6th consecutive homecoming game this coming Saturday.

The Mavericks are coming off of a road loss to the Winona State Warriors and there’s no better time to bounce back from a loss than homecoming. Minnesota State is now 3-2 but Head Coach Todd Hoffner says the players and coaches are still op-

timistic about what is next to come.

“Our guys are still believing and they’re still excited. We’re going to have to hit that extra oxygen on the blowtorch and try and burn it strong throughout the game,” Hoffner said. “I think it’s really important that you never assume or take anything for granted and become complacent. It’s college football- anything can happen.”

The Mavericks are going to need to have complete and total focus on the game ahead. They will need to show a high level of perseverance if they want to overcome several early season losses.

“What’s in the hearts and minds of these young men and how bad they want something ultimately determines the outcome because motivated groups of people

Reporter Archives can accomplish anything. So the sky is the limit,” Hoffner said.

Last season’s homecoming contest, Minnesota State set an attendance record for a football game with 7,187 fans attending the game, ac-

cording to Minnesota State’s athletic site. That kind of showing has a real impact on the players and impacts the game in a tremendous way.

“I think it makes it special.

We’ve had a winning tradition and a winning program. I

think that helps, and the fans enjoy watching quality opponents and competitive foot-

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Vikings’ defense remains to be feared by rest of NFL The NFC North team has stifled elites of the league through four weeks.

JAMES ANDERSEN Staff Writer The Minnesota Vikings are without offensive signal-caller Teddy Bridgewater for the entire year. That is okay, because they will rely heavily on superstar running back Adrian Peterson. Oh wait-that’s right. He’s out for the season with a torn meniscus. Adding on to all of this, the Vikings’ former Pro-Bowl left tackle Matt Kalil is out for the rest of the season due to a torn labrum in his hip. This sounds like the start of a nightmare season for Vikings fans… yet they’re 4-0, and show no signs of regression.

The Minnesota Vikings traded next year’s first round draft pick for former Heisman Trophy winner and first overall pick in 2010, Sam Bradford.

Don’t let the past glory fool you; he’s had a less-than-im-

So far, Sam Bradford has shown that he was worth the trade. Of the three games he’s played this season, he has a 69.5 completion percentage rating, a 105.5 quarterback rating (QBR), and he has yet to turn the ball over.

It’s hard to get any more value out of a quarterback, especially when he’s had virtually no time to prepare for the Vikings offense. Not to mention, the Vikings are currently last in the NFL at running the ball, averaging 64.3 yards per game. With all that being said, the Vikings’ offense seems to be running smoothly enough. They are not wowing fans without video game offensive numbers, and they don’t have to with one of the NFL’s best defenses on their side.

If there was one word to define the Vikings’ defense this season, it’s relentless.

Photo Courtesy of The Associated Press Quarterback Sam Bradford fires a pass during Monday night’s game against the New York Giants.

pressive career so far, and become somewhat of a laughing stock around the NFL. This move made many fans scratching their heads.

Not counting Monday night’s game against the Giants, the Vikings have forced turnovers on 25.7 percent of opposing drives. That’s an insane sta-

Photo Courtesy of The Associated Press Minnesota’s Head Coach Mike Zimmer has been the mastermind behind the Vikings’ success on defense. tistic. They have forced nine turnovers in the first three games. To put that into perspective, they reached nine turnovers in eight games last season. They added two more turnovers against the New York Giants, the first time this season they didn’t register three turnovers. So far, the Vikings are at the top of the league in takeaways.

It all starts up front for the Vikings. The monster defensive linemen Linval Joseph, Everson Griffen, Danielle Hunter, and Brian Robison wreak havoc amongst opposing offenses, and they continue to prove that this pass rush is for real. This group has registered 15 sacks so far this season, second only to the Super Bowl champions in the Denver Broncos.

The line-backing core for the Vikings consists of two former teammates, and roommates, in college at UCLA in Eric Kendricks and Anthony Barr. Kendricks is a fine player who is known to stuff the run game at the line of scrimmage. However, Barr is the cornerstone of the Vi-

kings defense. He had a ProBowl selection last season, and has been a highly touted player at every level of his career. The 6’5” linebacker is a matchup nightmare for opposing running backs, and has the potential to be an allpro caliber player.

The secondary is led by safety Harrison Smith, who is arguably the best safety in the league. Smith is an incredibly versatile player who is at the heart of the coverage schemes for the team.

Beyond Smith, the two corners for the Vikings Xavier Rhodes and Trae Waynes are morphing from decent NFL players into elite shutdown corners that can change the game. Of course, these guys’ jobs are a lot easier when the defensive line is getting to the quarterback seemingly at will, but these players are no slouches. The veteran Terrance Newman has made a solid impact on the youngsters as well.

The Vikings defense is stacked with good players, but what makes this defense really click is the amount of

pressure they put on the opposing team’s quarterback.

According to Pro Football Focus, they do an extremely good job of disguising coverages and blitzes by stacking the players at the line of scrimmage. Putting almost everybody at the line confuses other offenses on who’s actually blitzing and who is dropping into coverage. This scheme is the reason why the Vikings rank second in the league in sacks and have the best turnover ratio.

This Vikings defense is legit, but are they as good as previous great defenses?

Can they be compared to the 1985 Bears? 2000 Ravens?

2015 Broncos? That can’t be answered right now. We’ll soon find out within the next few months of the season.

Stellar quarterback plays and a stifling defense is a recipe of a winning football team, and so far the Vikings have it. If the Vikings keep up this level of football, we could be seeing them make a deep run come playoff time.

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Momentum vital as Mavs’ soccer season rolls on Mavericks have a record of 5-3-1 in the first half of the season.

COREY YUMAN Staff Writer The Minnesota State Mavericks soccer team is gearing up and getting ready to head into the second half of the regular season. At this point in the season, the Mavericks are sitting on a 5-3-1 record and riding a wave of momentum.

The first quarter of the season didn’t quite get off to the start that the team would have hoped for. The Mavericks placed a 1-2-1 record over the course of their first four games, but they’ve won four out of their last five games.

The girls are going to need all the momentum they can get as they prepare for this weekend’s games, as they will be playing two very tough conference match-ups. On Friday they return home after being away last weekend.

They will face Wayne State on Alumni Day, and on Sunday they hit the road once again to play Augustana. The team is currently sitting on a 4-2 record in Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) play.

Wayne State holds a slightly better record out of the two teams the Mavs are playing this weekend, as they sit on a 6-2-2 overall record. The last time the two teams met was on October 17th of last year. The Mavericks earned a 6-0 victory that was led by a hat trick by Maddie Raley.

Wayne State is being led

by Carys Hund, who has four goals on the year. Natalie Rech and Brooke Buzzell are close behind with three goals

Reporter Archives Kiana Nickel (21) and Morgan Cottew (9) have been key players for the Mavericks in 2016.

each while, Rech also has one assist. Wayne State’s goalie is Kylie Comba who has started in 10 games and recorded 49 saves, while allowing only nine scores. Comba has recorded three shutouts in 2016.

Augustana is a familiar foe for the Mavericks and a heavy hitter in the NSIC. Augustana is currently sitting on a 6-3-1 record and are 5-1-1 in the NSIC. The team is riding a five-game win streak and are undefeated at home. It will be a big test to see where the Mavericks are in terms of NSIC competition.

The two teams met twice last year. Their first meeting came in the regular season on October 18th where Morgan Cottew scored the game winner late in the second half to give Minnesota State a 2-1 victory. They met a second time later on, this time in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on November 15th. Then-Senior Korey Kronforst led the charge and scored two goals to give the

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Mavericks a 2-0 shutout and moved on in the tournament.

One can expect the returning players from Augustana to still have those loses fresh on their minds, as they try to avenge those losses to some degree.

Augustana’s leader in points for 2016 has been Emily Jacobson, who currently has nine points on the season after dishing out five assists and scoring two goals of her own. The top individual goal-scorer is Samantha Tym-

kowicz, who has four goals off of 32 shots. Goalkeeper Taylor Machacek has started all ten games this year and has made 56 saves with a .836 save percentage. She’s allowed 11 goals and posted three shutouts.

“Practice this week will be very important as we have two big games this upcoming weekend with Wayne State and Augustana. The three of us are closely ranked in the conference, so coming away with two wins would be ideal

of course,” said Senior Kiana Nickel.

The Mavericks have been a team of committee and four players are in double digits for points. Cottew is sitting on top with 14 points with six goals and two assists, Taylor Kenealy has 12 points with five goals and two assists, Nickel also has 12 points but with four goals and four assists, and Alesha Duccini has 10 points with her four goals and two assists.

It’s tough to predict who may getting the starting spot at goalkeeper over the weekend. Alexa Rabune started off the year as a starter and has had that spot for six games, but she has accumulated a 2-3-1 record. Taylor Livermore has started in one game and posted a shutout and in the Mavericks’ most recent game, Ryann Rydeen got her second start of the year and posted her second shutout victory of the year.

The Mavericks will play Wayne State at 1 p.m., Friday, at The Pitch and they will take on Augustana at 1 p.m., Sunday in Sioux Falls, S.D.

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“MSU’s Senior goaltender Cole Huggins will be entering his final season, and will play a vital role in the hockey team’s success for this season. He is tied for second in the Nation for active players in terms of career wins (38) and is tied for first with ten career shutouts.”

Reporter Archives Sophomore forward Ryan Schwalbe (in black) takes a face-off during a game last season. son.

The Huskies have already begun their season, and lost both games they have played.

They lost to the 6th ranked Minnesota Duluth team 6-0 and 4-3, respectively. Senior forward Tyler Heinonen leads the Huskies in career goals currently with 32. He was ranked third on last year’s team in goals with 15. Junior forward Joel L’Esperance was tied for second-most goals

on the team last year with 16.

He currently has 24 career goals. Senior defenseman Shane Hanna has played for the second-most games in Divison-I hockey going into this season, playing all 120 games of his career.

MSU’s Senior goaltender Cole Huggins will be entering his final season, and will play a vital role in the hockey team’s success for this season. He is tied for second in

the Nation for active players in terms of career wins (38) and is tied for first with ten career shutouts. Huggins will be the career leader at Minnesota State if he achieves one more shutout, passing former goaltender Stephon Williams (2012-2015).

The Mavericks struggled at times putting the puck in goal on offense, averaging 2.6 goals per game. The defense and goaltending were something to proud of, only allowing 2 goals per game.

What remained a strong point for last year’s team was their conference play, as they finished in second place in the conference with a 18-67 record in the WCHA. The Huskies meanwhile were first in the WCHA with a 18-7-3 record.

The puck will drop at 7:07 p.m. Friday, as well as the same time Saturday at the Verizon Center. The Mavericks are looking to start their season off on the right foot a bit better than last season, as they started the season 0-5, including three-straight losses at home.

FOOTBALL continued from 25 ball games,” Hoffner said.

“The turn-out and support we’ve been getting throughout the years has definitely increased, and I think it’s become a very big deal.”

The Mavericks own a 48-33-2 record all-time in homecoming games and will be trying to extend their homecoming winning-streak to six games.

It won’t be an easy task however, as the Golden Bears will be coming into Blakeslee Stadium looking to “bare down” on the Mavericks, pun intended.

The Golden Bears have averaged 24.8 points this season and average 4.9 yards per rush. Containing the offense and owning the line of scrimmage will be very important if the Mavericks want to leave Blakeslee with a win. Leading the way for the Golden Bears in the run game is Senior running back Dari-

us Chapes. In five games, Chapes has 372 yards on 51 carries, averaging 7.2 yards per carry.

Dominating the line of scrimmage and containing the run game up front will play a major role in deciding a winner, but it will ultimately come down to much more than just that.

Special situations like third and short, goal line situations, and red-zone situations are all going to play huge factors in the game and as Hoffner said, “We just have to play solid Mavericks football.”

The game will start at 2 p.m. on Saturday, October 8th. This will be the 11th meeting between the Mavericks and the Golden Bears with Minnesota State dominating the series 8-2.

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Boudreau takes the reigns for the Wild ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Not much has changed with the Minnesota Wild roster.

The biggest difference is the man now in charge on the bench, Bruce Boudreau, who’s been tasked with squeezing more success out of a team that’s been stuck in the early rounds of the playoffs for the last four years.

“Bruce has that ability to convince the players, to get the players, to encourage the players, to prod the players to execute on a consistent basis,” general manager Chuck Fletcher said the day Boudreau was introduced in May. “If we do that, we’re a good hockey team and can even become very good.”

Boudreau has mostly experienced early exits from the postseason, too, with Washington and Anaheim.

Without them, though, the 61-year-old likely wouldn’t have been available to Fletcher and the Wild in the search for the franchise’s fifth head coach and fourth in six years. They’re banking on Boudreau, with his remarkable regular season success of eight division titles in nine years, as the catalyst that this

a group of players has been missing at critical times.

“You come to realize why he’s had success. Everything he says makes a lot of sense,” right wing Jason Pominville said. “He kind of goes out of his way to make sure that we understand it and explains to us why we’re doing it and what can happen if we do it and do it right, so it’s nice to have that voice.”

With his roly-poly build and mischievous gap-toothed grin, Boudreau doesn’t look the part of a taskmaster.

Make no mistake, though, that his practices have been demanding during the getto-know-each-other phase during training camp.

“They are intense, a lot of skating, and you can tell there’s a purpose to all the drills we’re doing,” left wing Zach Parise said, noting the emphasis on teaching concepts and creating game-like situations. “It kind of forces us to play at a faster pace in practices, and hopefully that translates into games.”

The Wild start the season at division rival St. Louis on Oct. 13. Their home opener is two days later against Win-

nipeg.

Here are some of the top storylines for 2016-17 in Boudreau’s first year with Minnesota: Zach Parise missed the playoff series last spring, a six-game loss to division champion Dallas, with a back injury that bothered him down the stretch and robbed the Wild of their best forward. Healthy enough to play for the U.S. team in the World Cup of Hockey, Parise will be counted on to be the emotional engine of a first line featuring center Marc Staal, one of the few notable offseason additions, and Charlie Coyle on the right wing.

“They’re part of our top six, and we expect them to score,” Boudreau said. “And I expect them to be able to defend. It’s not a one-way street.”

Charlie Coyle has gone back and forth between center and the wing, but the plan for now is to keep him and his 6-foot-3, 218-pound frame on the wing. Coyle had a career-high 21 goals and 42 points in 2015-16, but he was still prone to long stretches without scoring.

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“So far we haven’t seen the peak of him,” Boudreau said. “I think he’ll be better and when he’s better it makes all of us better.”

Since making his debut as a 20-year-old in 201213, Mikael Granlund hasn’t matched the hype surrounding his talent with the same production. Granlund began to thrive on the wing during the postseason, and he’ll likely stay there on a line centered by captain Mikko Koivu and rounded out by Chris Stewart, the other significant

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“If I’m a winger, I’m a winger,” Granlund said. “I’m excited both ways. So it doesn’t matter to me.”

Boudreau hired Hall of Fame defenseman Scott Stevens for his staff, bringing a hard-nosed guide for the blue-line group led by Parise’s pal, Ryan Suter. Stevens, who spent three years on New Jersey’s staff, was itching to get back on the bench after working for NHL Network last season.

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Blue Jays walk-off Orioles in AL Wild Card game TORONTO (AP) — Edwin Encarnacion advanced Toronto to the AL Division Series in the Blue Jays’ familiar manner — with a big home run.

Encarnacion hit a threerun drive in the 11th inning off Ubaldo Jimenez , and Toronto beat the Baltimore Orioles 5-2 in Tuesday night’s AL wild card game to advance to a Division Series matchup against old foe Texas.

“It was a very special moment and a very special opportunity,” Encarnacion said through a translator.

Jose Bautista also homered for the Blue Jays , who open the Division Series on Tuesday at Texas. Encarnacion’s homer brought back memories of the tiebreaking, three-run shot that Bautista hit in the seventh inning of Game 5 of last year’s AL Division Series win over the Rangers, a shot punctuated by a memorable bat flip.

And the Blue Jays won their last World Series title in 1993 on Joe Carter’s walkoff home run .

“I was looking for a fastball and I was trying to put the barrel on it, get a little bit in front because the infield was playing in, and I actually got it,” Encarnacion said through a translator.

Jimenez relieved Brian Duensing with one out in the 11th, and Devon Travis singled in a 1-1 pitch. Reigning AL MVP Josh Donaldson singled on the next pitch, and Travis went all the way to third as left fielder Nolan Reimold bobbled the ball.

Encarnacion sent the following pitch, a 91 mph offering, soaring into the second deck in left. Encarnacion immediately knew it was gone and raised both arms in tri-

umph, index fingers pointed skyward.

The crowd of 49,934 chanted “Eddie, Eddie!” as Encarnacion circled the bases before being greeted by a mob of teammates. Encarnacion matched his career-best with 42 home runs in the regular season.

Jimenez said he was trying to throw a low slider and induce a double play.

“It didn’t do anything,” Jimenez said. “It stayed up.”

Orioles closer Zach Britton, who was perfect in 47 save chances during the regular season, never got in the game.

“Nobody has been pitching better for us than Ubaldo,” Baltimore manager Buck Showalter said . “It didn’t work out.”

Britton warmed up three times but didn’t leave the bullpen.

“It’s frustrating but it’s not my call,” Britton said. “It was just frustrating to have to sit there and watch.”

Francisco Liriano retired five straight batters on four groundouts and a strikeout for the win after closer Roberto Osuna left with a sore shoulder .

“The doctor told me that I was going to be fine, I just need a couple of days,” Osuna said. “I’ve been pitching a lot lately. They think it’s just fatigue from the last couple of weeks.”

Toronto beat Texas in five-game Division Series, sparked by Bautista’s memorable homer. The teams brawled in May this year when Bautista was punched in the face by Rangers infielder Rougned Odor following a play at second base.

“It’s going to be a very interesting series, and we’re

looking forward to it,” Encarnacion said.

The roof was open at Rogers Centre, formerly SkyDome, where all 24 previous postseason games had been played with it closed.

Bautista led off the second against Chris Tillman with his fifth postseason homer. Mark Trumbo, who led the major leagues with 47 home runs, gave Baltimore a 2-1 lead in the fourth with a two-run homer off Marcus Stroman .

Ezequiel Carrera’s RBI single chased Tillman in the fifth.

When Toronto pinch-hitter Melvin Upton Jr. flied out to the warning track in left field to end the seventh, Orioles outfielder Hyun Soo Kim was nearly struck by a can that was thrown from the stands.

Center fielder Adam Jones angrily gestured toward the seats, and Showalter came out to register his displeasure with the umpires.

“It’s tough when you have that many people in the ballpark and one person does something that reflects poorly on all of them,” Showalter said. “It can happen in any ballpark. I don’t like anything that puts our guys in harm’s way.

Blue Jays fans tossed bottles and debris on the field during game 5 against Texas last year, upset at the call that let Odor score from third after catcher Russell Martin’s throw back to the mound deflected off Shin Soo Choo’s bat.

Jones wasn’t as diplomatic as his manager.

“That is about as pathetic as it gets,” he said. “I hope they find the guy and press charges.”

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Beckham Jr. faces more scrutiny after latest outburst MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Odell Beckham Jr. took exception to getting tagged by Xavier Rhodes just after he ran out of bounds, so he got up and exchanged a couple of words with the Minnesota Vikings cornerback.

It was a benign confrontation by Beckham’s standards, but still drew an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty from the officiating crew.

And with that, the message was clear: the extremely talented and extremely volatile New York Giants receiver is a marked man now, his reputation cemented as a player who needs to be closely watched for all the wrong reasons.

“It’s always, it’s just my fault. That’s all I look at it as, it’s my fault. Whatever you want to call it,” Beckham said after having just three catches for a career-low 23 yards in New York’s 24-10 loss on Monday night. “I just have to understand if I sneeze the wrong way, it’ll be a flag, it’ll be a fine. If I tie my shoe the wrong way, it might be a fine or a flag. It is what it is. You have to understand that.”

Playing a position that has long been known for outsized egos, Beckham is following in the footsteps of receivers like Terrell Owens, Chad Johnson and Randy Moss, who made a thunderous return to Minnesota as an ESPN analyst on Monday night.

His talent is undeniable and his production is top notch — Beckham already has more receptions, yards receiving and touchdowns than any Giants player has

put up in his first three seasons, and Beckham’s third year is only four games old.

But the price the Giants pay for the elite playmaker comes in the form of tantrums, outbursts and penalty flags.

Last year he was suspended for a game after drawing three personal foul penalties in a vicious matchup with then-Carolina cornerback Josh Norman. It also prompted Commissioner Roger Goodell to back a new rule that allows referees to eject a player after drawing multiple personal fouls.

He has already lost $130,000 in salary because of fines and suspensions in his young career. Beckham was so unruly on the sideline in a loss to Norman and the Washington Redskins last week that coach Ben McAdoo had to speak with him several times to try to calm him down.

Eli Manning backed Beckham earlier this week. But what should be worrisome to Beckham and the Giants is that officials are watching him more closely than ever now that his reputation as a hot head has been established.

Manning said after the game his receiver has to adjust.

“He’s got to be aware,” Manning said. “People are looking for him and he’s got to be smart. He can’t afford to do anything that they’re going to call. He’s brought that on himself, so he’s got to be aware of that.”

And there are signs the negative attention is starting to wear on other teammates.

“I’m not answering any Odell, those types of questions,” receiver Victor Cruz said. “Ask me about him as a player or me as a player or our team. I’m not answering any Odell-infraction questions.”

Beckham wasn’t targeted until a 9-yard reception on a slant more than seven minutes into the second quarter.

Later in the drive, he caught a short pass and was bumped

by Rhodes just after he hit the sideline.

His confrontation with Rhodes was a pillow fight compared to the haymakers he exchanged with Norman last year, but he still drew a damaging 15-yard penalty that short-circuited a Giants drive. He clapped sarcastically after referee Brad Allen announced the infraction.

“I’ve just got to know it’s all against me,” Beckham said.

“It’s going to be that way. I have to assume that I’m always in the wrong no matter what. That’s something, it’s a tough pill to swallow, but you have to understand it, you have to be able to cope with it and just keep it moving.”

When he reached the sideline, Beckham was quietly pulled aside by receivers coach Adam Henry for a chat and linebacker Mark Herzlich also approached him to try to calm him down.

Rhodes appeared to come unglued as well, needing to be restrained on the sideline by several coaches and later pushed back off the field by linebacker Chad Greenway after jawing with Beckham.

“Got to keep your compo-

sure,” Rhodes said. “He tries to get to you by getting on you, fighting with you and trying to get you out of your game.”

The outbursts from both players were kept to a minimum the rest of the game and so was Beckham’s impact on offense.

“The refs are looking to call anything, and they’re not looking to call anything the other way,” Beckham said.

“You have to know that, you have to know that, you have to be OK with it. Unfortunately, you have to be OK with it, but that’s just the position I’m in.”

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